1. Talïannuti a lu spissu, Sugnu tutto ammaraggiatu, Lu mè sangu 'un è lu stissu Como un gelu è divintatu; Cu st'ucchiuzzi ti talìu, Moru, spasimu e diliru, Iu mi sentu 'ntra lu cori 'Na mancaza di rispiru. 2. Vinni 'u medicu a osservari Li me' affanni e li me' peni, Iu mi misi a raccuntari La caciuni d'unni veni. E lu medicu mi dissi: Figghiu, lassa sta partita, Si ssa donna tu nun lassi Poco dura la tò vita. 3. Iu sintennu ddu parrari Cci rispusi a vuci forti: A sta donna 'un so lassari, Nun mi scantu di la morti; Idda stissa lu pò diri S'è sinceru lu mè amuri, M'accuntentu di muriri, E 'un chiamarmi tradituri!

1. When you often meet my gazes, On my senses frenzy seizes, Thro' my very blood it races, In my veins the current freezes; And I stand and look upon you; I am raving, fainting, dying! Tho' I dreamt my heart had won you, I have only breath for sighing. 2. Now the doctor came to see me, In my sorrow and my anguish, And I soon began to tell him What it was that made me languish. Said the doctor, like a prophet: O my son, you are but human, And your life will be the forfeit If you do not leave this woman! 3. When I heard the doctor's sermon, I replied, and told him loudly: I can never leave this woman, As for Death, I'll meet him proudly! Let her tell you, if she care to, If a love were ever greater; I would sooner die, than dare to Live and bear the name of traitor!

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Marzo, Eduardo. Songs of Italy; sixty-five Tuscan, Florentine, Lombardian and other Italian folk- and popular songs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1904. 185

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